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"Terrorismus" zwischen Ereignis und Diskurs
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00Text-image combinations can authenticate events and establish a visual memory. Here this phenomenon is explored: A pragmatic theory of text-image relationships is developed and empirically tested on the example of print media reports about terrorism in the FRG during the 1970s. The analyses show how texts unambiguously illuminate the meaning of images... more...
3D-Kino im Wohnzimmer: Analyse einer Unterhaltungs-Revolution durch Stereoskopie
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 48.52Hauptbeschreibung 3D ist nicht gleich 3D. Das haben viele Heimkinobesitzer sicherlich gemerkt, als das neue 3D-Equipment dann im Wohnzimmer stand. Oft war ihre Freude nur von kurzer Dauer, denn zum Umrüsten auf 3D ist mehr nötig als einfach in den nächsten Elektronik-Fachmarkt zu gehen und einen "3D-Fernseher" zu kaufen. Die Technik der Stereoskopie... more...
50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know: Religion
The Disinformation Company 2011; US$ 12.95Everything that holy men of all stripes don't want you to know about religions major and minor. more...
Acoustic Territories
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 80.00Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and acts of listening, and discusses how auditory studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture... more...
Alarming Reports
Berghahn Books 2009; US$ 75.00News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. News as a fundamental social process comes into being not... more...
Alternative Media
SAGE Publications 2001; US$ 68.00In this book, Chris Atton offers a fresh introduction to alternative media: one which is not limited to `radical' media, but can also account for newer cultural forms such as zines, fanzines, and personal websites. more...
The Alternative Media Handbook
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 41.95'Alternative Media' is the term used to describe non-mainstream media forms that are independently run and community focussed, such as zines, pirate radio, online discussion boards, community run and owned broadcasting companies, and activist publications such as Red Pepper and Corporate Watch . The book outlines the different types of 'alternative... more...
Alternative and Mainstream Media
Bloomsbury Publishing 2011; US$ 71.50Alternative media have historically been a central force in social change. Kenix argues, however, that they do not uniformly subvert the hierarchies of access that have always been fundamental to mainstream media. In fact, their journalistic norms and routines have always drawn on the professional standards of the mainstream. Through comparative analysis... more...
American Militarism and Anti-Militarism in Popular Media, 19451970
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 45.00Scholars have characterized the early decades of the Cold War as an era of rising militarism in the United States but most Americans continued to identify themselves as fundamentally anti-militaristic. To them, "militaristic" defined the authoritarian regimes of Germany and Japan that the nation had defeated in World War II--aggressive, power-hungry... more...
The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 143.00









